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Caches found: fifty Most countries cached in a single day: three Time on the ground in Zurich before finding a cache: twenty-seven minutes Nights out with local cachers in Luxemboug: one Languages spoken at the dinner table: four Friendships forged over the course of the evening: many Depth of the Pétrusse valley, Luxembourg City: 379 metres Number of times […]

5.7 km!!!! That’s a record for a lunchtime hike. And, truth be told, more than really fits in a lunch “hour”. But I really REALLY wanted to try this puzzle cache… So. Welcome to today’s caching adventure. It’s pretty straight-forward. Just park here: Then slither down the gravel embankment, nip about 600m into the woods to […]

So, SO many things I wouldn’t have seen and done in London if I hadn’t been geocaching. I never would have known about the Fire Brigade Museum, described in the write-up for a nearby cache. (Meena’s going to love this one!) I certainly wouldn’t have gone to a downtown pub at happy hour on a […]

So. Geocaching. Here’s the deal: You start with a map like this one: or better still, this one: (Click on either map for a live scrollable/zoomable version) The map is really important. Without it, you might be standing next to this… … just taking in the view … … not realizing that if you just […]

This post doesn’t make much sense (that is to say, it makes even less sense than usual) unless you also read yesterday’s post. But if you don’t want to do that, the executive summary: I’m going to London. I’m taking a bunch of geocaching hitchhikers with me. (Are you sure you don’t want to read […]

Three sleeps until London! Unless you count Saturday night on the plane (which I don’t). Have I rambled-on here about geocaching before? Here’s one (really old) post about it (dates back to the days when I called myself ramblingstroller and was going to write the BEST guide to Ottawa with kids EVAH). But in case […]

You pass by them every day. Hiding in your local park. Tucked in among the trees at the end of the street. Stashed in the empty lot behind the mall. Little treasures hidden all over the city, while you walk by with nary an inkling. That, my friend, is because you are a Muggle. ‘Muggle’ […]